September 26, 2025 • 39 mins
Nashville Recording Artist Ronny Criss joined us on the show to chat about his brand new upcomong record and lots more! Tune in at thesportsguyspodcast.com to hear more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Guys and Gals is a national recording artist, Ronny Chris,
and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past podcast
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and entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past. Always a busy day
full of shows, and it's been a busy week here.
Of course, about four weeks down until Halloween. Out there's
early trick or treaters. I guess get ready because Halloween
is coming back, always one of my favorite holidays. It
kind of sets it to on for the end of
the year. Of course, right around the corner is Thanksgiving
out there, too, got a lot to give thanks about
here in twenty twenty five, KYB A ninety eight point one,
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A grand slam of music, sports and entertainment, and of
course Iheartradiot there too. Of course, it is a Friday
New Music release day and we get all the exclusive
right here on the backstage pass. Please to welcome in
Nashville recording artist, good friend of ours, good friend of
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my publicist and his publicist too, Sherry Cranford, and of
course out there Ronnie Chris joining us here on the show.
What's up, Ronnie?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Hey, what's up everybody?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's good to be here, no doubt. We'll tell you what.
Let's kind of start there too. For all the listeners
out there, get to know you a little bit as
a recording artist and the thing you know for music
here for you seems like it pretty much came naturally.
But when was that connection for you from an early age?
Tell everybody a little bit about yourself and becoming a
musician that path.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, you know, I have a you know, interesting background.
I was born in Arkansas, I was raised in Chicago.
Music was always there in my life. I actually have
a song on the new record that is a little
bit about my relationship with my father, and there's I've
had a lot of fun recently creating a playlist that
goes with that song that spans all kinds of decades,
(01:58):
and so it made me think of the music as
it hit me as a young person, but you know,
young when I was little, definitely country music. Probably around
middle school age, I kind of started listening to what
would have been the sort of the early heyday of rap.
So you're talking like, you know, Tone Loak and Young
(02:20):
MC and like all that stuff and Ella Ice and
I think I was into that for a little while.
And then, like anyone my age, Nirvana came around and
I got hit with the grunge bug and just fell
in love with rock and roll, and I kind of
fell in love with the Beatles and all that stuff,
(02:42):
and that just started. I just started tearing through music
like crazy through through the middle school high school years.
I didn't pick up a guitar and learn how to
play until I was about nineteen. There was a time
when I was in middle school where I thought I
might want to learn how to play the saxophone, but
we couldn't afford the saxophone, so we didn't do it.
So who knows that my life would be completely different
maybe if we would have bought that saxophone. But yeah,
(03:06):
it's music has always been there, and because of my
weird sort of growing up, I've always been a country fan.
As at the same time as popular, Like, well, country
is super popular now, but back then it was a
little bit more niche. It was more regional, and then
you had like the Billboard Hot one hundred, right. Well,
I was fans of that stuff at the same time
(03:28):
that I was listening to Garth and George Strait and
Alan Jackson and all that amazing night you know, eighties
and nineties country, and so I have this like emotional
duality with both of those types of music, and they
all need stuff to me, and it just kind of
it was obvious that music was something that really got
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me going, and I guess inevitable that I would start
trying to make my.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Own when you start looking at you know, you mentioned
that duality there after songs and kind of what you
got into picking up an instrument. I always like to
ask that too, because some people it was the piano,
for some it was the guitar, could be a combination
of either instrument. When you first picked up an instrument
and learned to play some chords, what were they and
kind of were you comfortable? Did it take extra practice time?
(04:15):
And then what kind of cover songs? What were you playing?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
From a young age, it was guitar was the one
that I picked up. I think it was because it
was affordable and I had gotten slightly inspired to learn
how to play in a very teenage way because I
was at this I was at like a church camp
or something, and this guy who I thought was old,
who's probably at that time younger than I am now,
(04:41):
was playing acoustic guitar and singing these cheesy songs, and
I was like, well, if he could play, I can play,
and so then I asked for a guitar. And I
know that sounds whatever, but that's how teenagers are. And
you know, I was really in high school. I was
really in the Dave Matthews band. So one of the
first things I learned was a song called liner Graves
(05:04):
by Dave Matthews. I also really liked James Taylor a lot,
so I started learning like Carolina on my mind. So
I was at the same time I was learning chords.
I was also I wasn't good at either of these,
but I was learning chords, but I was also learning
fingerpicking stuff, and I was learning unique rhythm stuff because
(05:25):
Dave Matthews is a very rhythmic based guitar player, and
I think that all actually serviced me well as I
started getting more and more into it. The other interesting
part of that is I asked for a guitar, acoustic
guitar for Christmas, and my wonderful mom did her best,
(05:46):
but she bought me a classical acoustic guitar. And if
anybody knows the classical, the difference between acoustic and a
classical is the neck is like way thicker and it's
nylon strings. And try playing Dave matthew songs on an
Island guitar. So you know, I was a little like
just a standard you know, grateful and annoyed at the
(06:08):
same time. I was like, but it didn't deter me,
and I started learning those crazy chords that he would
play on those songs on a classical guitar. So what
that did, which I didn't realize when I switched to
a regular acoustic guitar, my dexterity was insane, Like I
could stretch my fingers on the threat of a normal
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guitar like crazy, because I was learning these more complicated things.
So I think when I finally got a regular acoustic
that was right right around when I went to college.
I picked up a lot of steam there and The
other part too, is as I was learning and playing
cover songs initially, I in between every one of those,
(06:50):
I would like try to write something. It was just
I couldn't help myself. Like I'd learned DCG and I'd
make something up in DCG. I'd learned, Oh now I
got a minor. Okay, now I'm gonna throw a song
that has DCG with the A minor. And I would
write things because I don't know, I'd always had something
in my head I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I guess that's the beauty of it too, when you
look back at it, all that great stuff is you
can turn it into something. That's the beauty about music.
It's such it's therapy. And I'm gonna get dig more
into that conversation. We come back. We gotta play some
music against check you out at Ronnie Chris dot com
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my back.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
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Speaker 5 (08:33):
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and let you use us rule you want them to rule.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
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Speaker 6 (09:00):
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Speaker 5 (09:07):
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Speaker 4 (09:13):
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Speaker 3 (09:19):
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Speaker 6 (09:26):
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Speaker 4 (09:52):
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round down the line, but I ain't.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
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Speaker 5 (10:14):
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Speaker 4 (10:31):
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Speaker 5 (10:38):
Them to rule.
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Speaker 6 (11:00):
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Speaker 2 (15:00):
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got to talk about this one. I loved it because, like,
I'm going, yeah, seventy miles an hour in a truck
and it's kind of cool. Seventy five I tried to
stay under the speed limit, yeah right, but never easy
until you see the popo kind of pull up next
to you or kind of squatted in one of those
positions out there, and you're like, yeah, I gotta slow down.
But see to me, like it's those kind of songs
that you like, take you on a good roll down
a highway. Yeah, man, something there, and that one just
(15:41):
kind of kept like your head bobbing, like the shoulders moving.
How did you guys come in contact with this and
the arrangement with the McCrary sisters.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well man, that was that song. I wrote that with
my friend Judy Passer, and we wrote that just coming
out of the sort of the Covid Hayze It in
like twenty one or twenty two, and I just I
went into that right, I just like, I want to
write something that's feel good, that's optimistic, something that just
(16:12):
And what was on my mind was like sometimes you
just gotta like roll through the punches kind of thing,
you know, like let it all roll off your back.
Those were all like the phrases I kept thinking in
my head, and I had this I just had this
sort of gospely muscle shoalsy groove going on, and we
started working out some lyrics for it, and that chorus
(16:34):
just came to me and it was like, I, I,
you know, I'd never written a song where I like
literally purposely hit like a super low note to kick
off the chorus. You know, it's like, oh, like you
want them to roll like that big?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Like I just it just was in me. I don't
know what it was.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I think it was all of that stuff pent up
and it came out, and I remember Judy looked at
me like WHOA, what's where's that coming from? I'm like,
I don't know, but let's go. And we finished that
song and it was just I was like, oh my gosh,
like this is a special song and this is such
a fun song. And I knew immediately it was going
to be a staple of my set. I'd be playing
(17:13):
it all the time because anytime I played it for anybody,
people are like, WHOA, where did that come from? And
so when we were making this record, there was no
doubt we were going to put it on the record.
And I'll give you a little uh nobody know, well,
only people who are in my circle know this, but
we haven't put this out yet, so you get an
exclusive here on the record. There's actually two versions of
(17:36):
that song. There's the version that the original version was
reported way back when before I even started making the record.
Because my producer Sean loved the song so much, he
went and started making a version of the song without it.
He didn't even tell me, he just started making a version.
He's like, dude, I want you to come in and
sing on this. I did this because I love the
song so much, And he did this kind of more
(17:58):
country version of the song, and I loved it and
I sang on it, and then I'm like, when we
were marking the record, I'm like, Sean, now that we
will playing with the band, we do a very muscle
shoalzy soulful version, Let's do the soulful version and we'll
have them both on the record. So we did. And
then at that same time, Sean was talking to mccrey's
sisters Regina. He had met her recently, and we just
(18:22):
took a shot in the dark and we contacted him
and said, hey, would you guys be willing to sing
on the song? And oh my god, Like I couldn't
believe it. They were totally into it and they came
in and it was one of the definitely coolest moments
in my musical career to be in a studio with
those ladies laying down the gospel soul on that song,
Like it was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
That's so cool. And you know, I got a chance
to check out that first record we were talking about
a little bit Highways, which came out in twenty twenty two. Yeah,
don't know it out there A lot of cool things
off of their leaving Things was a really cool song
that kind of got right to the point too, and
I loved The Times I Need You.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Love that song.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
They may give me some highlights on your first record too.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, the first record. You know. I love all those
songs too. Tanks the Gas is a special one that
one felt. That was the first single that really felt
like it was a great introduction to me as a
solo artist. If it rains like this tomorrow is one
of my favorite tracks off of that. It's one of
my favorite one of the first songs I wrote in
Nashville when I moved here, The Times I Need You like.
(19:27):
I'm so glad you pointed that out because that's because
we didn't release it as a single, which upsets me now.
But that song gets overlooked sometimes, and it's one of
the most heartfelt songs that I've ever written. Ten and
two I wrote with Katie Cole, who Katie Cole. If
you don't know who she is, I'm pretty sure you do,
(19:48):
but she tours with the Smashing Pumpkins and she's an
amazing solo artist herself, and I wrote that with her
and Sean and that song is just rocking, and there's
just that song was all about youthful inner and like
learning life perspectives. Hurricane Heart is about different things, and
so if there's a progression there, but I appreciate you
(20:09):
bringing that up because I love that album.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, And of course you guys are releasing them a
little bit different now too. When it comes to this
next one you guys are working on, I guess, I
guess one question is it ready to go? And then
you guys looking for a drop date for this new record.
I know you're kind of releasing them a single at
a time. We mentioned about rolled. Of course there's another
song we're going to play called gennal Rain and Hurricane.
It's another fantastic song you're letting us play here before
it comes out across some DSPs. So kind of walk
(20:32):
people through the progress of this new record and how
you guys are releasing it because it's different, but I
like it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So the first record, we released five singles and then
we dropped the rest of the record on streaming, and unfortunately,
the sad part about that is the other six or
so songs just got ignored because of the way that works.
And so I knew this this time around, I was
going to do it different. So we actually officially released
the physical version of the album, Hurricane Heart, the new record.
(21:00):
We released that on August twenty ninth, the same day
we drop Role. So right now, if you come to
my shows, you can buy the limited edition vinyl, you
can buy the deluxe CD.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
If you go to my.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Website, you can buy it, and you can get it
in your hands right now. But we are not dropping
the whole record on DSPs all at once. We're dropping
every single song from the record one at a time
every seven to eight weeks, so the album will fully
be available probably next summer. And at that time I
(21:31):
told you about this earlier when we dropped that last song,
We're gonna drop it with fourteen outtakes, demos, cool others
tunes that almost made the record, So you have a
basically on DSPs. When the album is available, you'll have
the full record, plus a whole other album of unique
stuff to keep you interest and give you a better
(21:52):
picture of what it was like to think through the
process of making the record and how we got to
the final songs.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Well, that's good stuff up and we get a chance
to play one right now off there that you can
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from Ronnie Chris Cork. This one up coming right back,
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Speaker 3 (23:00):
Icking glass in the wet sand. She's breaking dishes all
over the kitchen. She opens the front door to storm
on the coas. Now the curtains are blowing and the
carpet is soaked.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
She ranges on like a tropical storm.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I try to keep calm, pick up the pieces when
she's done.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
We've seen better days.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
But all of its strong, like the waves through Generain,
General rein in her pane. Now she's caught in the sheets.
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She can't break free. Face and the pillow ten and
sleep long, golden hair spilled over the bed tangle like
beach grass beat down and sand.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Dark clouds are faded.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
There's nothing but silence and along tide branches wrestling from
all the drifting.
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There minds a nocean a way, but all of strong,
like the way.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Through General Ring, general rain in hurricane.
Speaker 15 (24:39):
And the times.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
I think I might be her loight houses.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
With a night with the fag cruising.
Speaker 15 (24:52):
I have mine down, stare on the breeze, a teaste
of the sea, the salt of the ocean stirring around me,
and the sun's coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And she moves from the bed and see it's by
the window with her hair and the window.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Children are play now on the beach. Now I want
to watch the wondering wood.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
She's thinking. The horizon is.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Grave, but all others strong, like.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
A wave through chen rain, generalin in hurricane, through chirein
generalin in hurricane.
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All right, tell us about this one General Rain and Hurricane.
First of all, I love the title. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 13 (29:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I wrote that with Davis Corley and Mark Addison Chandler song.
Actually we wrote this, I mean at least a decade ago.
Crazy enough as it is. We got into a rite
and you know, Davis was working with this cool sort
of imagery that he always does, and we just me
and him. We started riffing and Mark was throwing things
(30:16):
in there, and it was interesting because it was the
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and we wanted it to be beautiful and atmospheric and
(30:37):
and give you all the images of the beach and
the shore. But talk about the not beer drinking and
hanging out.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
It was.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It was something more serious, which is you know, you know,
you can look at it a couple of different ways,
but certainly you know, endearing love, mental illness, all kinds
of stuff. And so it's a heavy song, but it's
a it's a beautiful song. It's one of my favorite
songs ever written. I think it's one of the most
poetic songs that was ever written that I'm a part of.
(31:10):
And so it's you know, I love it. I can't
wait to release it, and I'm excited that you guys
got to play it first.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
About that. See, we get little exclusive stuff here on
the show all the time, to try to put out
the best of the best and get some stuff that
you guys haven't heard out there for all the listening
of fans too. Hey, you know, the fifty ninth. I
think it's fifty ninth annual cmas are coming up here
in November. The reason I know, I guess being a
CMA member, we get those weekly emails for all new
releases and things out there too. Man, I can't recall.
(31:38):
I guess since you've talked about eighties nineties country that
there's been this much crop of talent in quite some time,
both male female category, but specifically looking at this female
category right now, holy crap, Like I mean, one name
after another, not just the Queen Bee Laney Wilson, but
I want to get your opinion on just, man, the
health of the industry right now, between both male and female.
But a lot of good female ares kick some ass
(32:00):
right now.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Absolutely, Man, you know, I think it's a it's a
cool time. You know, I've seen a lot happen in
Nashville since I've since I got here, I've seen a
lot of different sort of musical fads within the sort
of realm of what we call country music. The coolest
thing that's happening now is country is very broad and
so you know, there was a period of time where
(32:23):
every single song sounded a certain way on the radio,
and that's just not the case right now. And and
you're right, the female artists have really there's a lot
of unique ones that are shining in unique ways, a
lot of cool songs, you know. So it's really fun
to see that. Landy obviously is a standout, but there's
(32:46):
a lot of them that are right up there with her,
I think. And and with that time, more and more
people are going to see it. I love that you
can have a Morgan Wallen and a Zach Top but
vying for things and they're completely different. They're completely different,
you know, And and it should be that way. I mean,
(33:08):
it just should be that way. And I think, uh,
I think country radio, Nashville whatever, they finally realized it's
okay to be broad it's okay to have different vibes
and let the market do what it does.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
You know, it's got to dictate what it's going to do,
no doubt. Of course, the fans have a lot to
say in that too. All right, we'll wrap up with
a couple of fun stuff here. They used to call
it rapid fire. We've renamed it a few times too,
But sometimes the answers don't come. Rapid Fire takes a
little deep thought, uh, look, the best time a year
to be a sports fan, no doubt for you college teams,
(33:42):
pro teams, any teams do you get into when it
comes to sports?
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Man, I'm a Cubs fan. I'm a Cubs fan my
whole life, love it Bears fan. I'm a Chicago sports fan.
I had the I was very last as a child
to be able to be in the United Center watching
Michael Jordan playball basketball. So anything Chicago is in my heart.
(34:08):
I don't watch a whole lot of sports these days.
I'm too busy, but that's where my initial place goes.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
All right. So when y'all took Kyle Tucker from us
here in Houston, being an Astros fan our lives even
to try to back into the playoffs, which I keep
telling people to, Yeah, if you can still make it,
make it, but they're not really going to go anywhere too.
But looking back at it, the Cubs have a real
chance of affecting what happens in the National League this
year too.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, man, the Cubs. Love the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Be fun it is, man. Like I said, I'll tell
you this, man, one of my favorite places, I'll say,
the favorite place all time beside Dodger Stadium to watch
a game, was actually going there live and that was
Wrigley Field. I love it out there.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's so love it, dude. I've been in the dugout, man,
I need to take it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So, yeah, I guess I wasn't the dugout with you too.
I wish I was a dugout when a game was
going on to and get some player autographs. That would
have been as an honorary bat boy. So I got
to sit with the players when I was like ten,
it was that's cool. Yeah, They're always in my heart.
Your heart too, no doubt too.
Speaker 13 (35:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
If you were not the working musician that you are,
and thank god you are because you're very good at it,
what other career path would you have taken?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Graphic design? I'm actually a pretty pretty good fine arts painter,
So painting I don't do a lot of that right
now because I also have a daughter, so who's under
the age of four, so music and that all takes
up a lot of time. But yeah, if people want
(35:41):
to google Ronnie and dig deep, you can find my
art on online.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I like that, artists, I like that just as a musician,
but as a painter too. I was gonna say Hitting Talent,
there's one right there too. At the same time, Nashville
No stranger too, spots to eat every time we go
for CRS and see we can do radio show live
from there. It's always something. It's like a test market
now for food chains to open up now, to see
if people like it, to see if it hangs around.
(36:08):
And of course if something closes up, something else moves.
In no doubt for you when you go out, where
do you like to go eat at?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh man, I'm not gonna lie, it's not fair to
Nashville because it's not a Nashville place. But we go
to Chewy's all the time because it's my daughter's favorite place.
But in Nashville, I'll give a shout out to Kaledisberger's.
Kalatis is a burger joint that's newer in Nashville, and
(36:36):
the gentleman who owns that, he hires folks that are
formerly homeless that are getting back on their feet, does
a really great job, and he tries to have at
least one seven dollars burger on the menu so things
aren't outrageously expensive. So I think those folks are pretty cool.
And the burgers are awesome.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So gotta try those next time I go there. Put
that on the to do list for restaurants. Look in April.
Back to some music real quick, Julia was released. Tell
us all about this song. I actually really really enjoyed
listening to this one.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Oh man, Julie is a special song. I originally wrote
that with my buddy Chris Floyd, who was in my
first band when I moved to Nashville. We were called
the Mercy Mechanics. Me and him wrote that. We used
to play it with that band, but we never recorded it,
and it sat on the shelf for probably fifteen years.
And when I was looking at songs for this new record,
I just knew it needed to have a new life,
(37:26):
and I brought it to Sean and we gave it
a brand new life with the drum groove and the
throwback almost eighties esque sort of vibe that we put
in it, and then the wonderful surprise of the saxophone
solo that it just sets the tone, and it really
sets the tone for the new record. That it's a
(37:46):
different record than Highways. It's still me and it's still
my writing and my voice, but it's definitely taking things off,
kicking things off with a new vibe to really you know,
you know, changed, you know, reset the table a little bit.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I like that too, and it was a different feel
which is really cool and definitely something that I could
have that cool vibe to and that good feel for
a song out there too and made again resonating with songs.
That's what it's all about for our music fans, both
for radio and for the artist guest here on the
program again. Role is the current single feature and the
McCrary sisters across all the digital streaming platforms Ronnie Cris
(38:24):
dot com, r O n n Y c R I
s S dot com. We even again spell it for
you here on the show, so we get things right
out there. It's what we're all about here on the
back beast man, I appreciate you being with us. I
know it took some time to put everything together. We
finally got it locked down and best of luck with
the gig and the shows in Florida this weekend and
hey continue to going forward.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We appreciate you, man, oh, I appreciate you. I just
honored to be on your show. I appreciate you having
me and thanks for all the kind words on the record,
and I hope everybody listens and gets into it because
I think they're gonna love it.
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Speaker 17 (39:27):
Hey all, this is Nashville Recording artists Mary Heather Hickman,
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Speaker 18 (39:41):
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and entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And welcome inside the Backstage Past. Always a busy day
full of shows, and it's been a busy week here.
Of course, about four weeks down until Halloween. Out there's
early trick or treaters. I guess get ready because Halloween
is coming back, always one of my favorite holidays. It
kind of sets it to on for the end of
the year. Of course, right around the corner is Thanksgiving
out there, too, got a lot to give thanks about
here in twenty twenty five, KYB A ninety eight point one,
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A grand slam of music, sports and entertainment, and of
course Iheartradiot there too. Of course, it is a Friday
New Music release day and we get all the exclusive
right here on the backstage pass. Please to welcome in
Nashville recording artist, good friend of ours, good friend of
(01:10):
my publicist and his publicist too, Sherry Cranford, and of
course out there Ronnie Chris joining us here on the show.
What's up, Ronnie?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Hey, what's up everybody?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's good to be here, no doubt. We'll tell you what.
Let's kind of start there too. For all the listeners
out there, get to know you a little bit as
a recording artist and the thing you know for music
here for you seems like it pretty much came naturally.
But when was that connection for you from an early age?
Tell everybody a little bit about yourself and becoming a
musician that path.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, you know, I have a you know, interesting background.
I was born in Arkansas, I was raised in Chicago.
Music was always there in my life. I actually have
a song on the new record that is a little
bit about my relationship with my father, and there's I've
had a lot of fun recently creating a playlist that
goes with that song that spans all kinds of decades,
(01:58):
and so it made me think of the music as
it hit me as a young person, but you know,
young when I was little, definitely country music. Probably around
middle school age, I kind of started listening to what
would have been the sort of the early heyday of rap.
So you're talking like, you know, Tone Loak and Young
(02:20):
MC and like all that stuff and Ella Ice and
I think I was into that for a little while.
And then, like anyone my age, Nirvana came around and
I got hit with the grunge bug and just fell
in love with rock and roll, and I kind of
fell in love with the Beatles and all that stuff,
(02:42):
and that just started. I just started tearing through music
like crazy through through the middle school high school years.
I didn't pick up a guitar and learn how to
play until I was about nineteen. There was a time
when I was in middle school where I thought I
might want to learn how to play the saxophone, but
we couldn't afford the saxophone, so we didn't do it.
So who knows that my life would be completely different
maybe if we would have bought that saxophone. But yeah,
(03:06):
it's music has always been there, and because of my
weird sort of growing up, I've always been a country fan.
As at the same time as popular, Like, well, country
is super popular now, but back then it was a
little bit more niche. It was more regional, and then
you had like the Billboard Hot one hundred, right. Well,
I was fans of that stuff at the same time
(03:28):
that I was listening to Garth and George Strait and
Alan Jackson and all that amazing night you know, eighties
and nineties country, and so I have this like emotional
duality with both of those types of music, and they
all need stuff to me, and it just kind of
it was obvious that music was something that really got
(03:51):
me going, and I guess inevitable that I would start
trying to make my.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Own when you start looking at you know, you mentioned
that duality there after songs and kind of what you
got into picking up an instrument. I always like to
ask that too, because some people it was the piano,
for some it was the guitar, could be a combination
of either instrument. When you first picked up an instrument
and learned to play some chords, what were they and
kind of were you comfortable? Did it take extra practice time?
(04:15):
And then what kind of cover songs? What were you playing?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
From a young age, it was guitar was the one
that I picked up. I think it was because it
was affordable and I had gotten slightly inspired to learn
how to play in a very teenage way because I
was at this I was at like a church camp
or something, and this guy who I thought was old,
who's probably at that time younger than I am now,
(04:41):
was playing acoustic guitar and singing these cheesy songs, and
I was like, well, if he could play, I can play,
and so then I asked for a guitar. And I
know that sounds whatever, but that's how teenagers are. And
you know, I was really in high school. I was
really in the Dave Matthews band. So one of the
first things I learned was a song called liner Graves
(05:04):
by Dave Matthews. I also really liked James Taylor a lot,
so I started learning like Carolina on my mind. So
I was at the same time I was learning chords.
I was also I wasn't good at either of these,
but I was learning chords, but I was also learning
fingerpicking stuff, and I was learning unique rhythm stuff because
(05:25):
Dave Matthews is a very rhythmic based guitar player, and
I think that all actually serviced me well as I
started getting more and more into it. The other interesting
part of that is I asked for a guitar, acoustic
guitar for Christmas, and my wonderful mom did her best,
(05:46):
but she bought me a classical acoustic guitar. And if
anybody knows the classical, the difference between acoustic and a
classical is the neck is like way thicker and it's
nylon strings. And try playing Dave matthew songs on an
Island guitar. So you know, I was a little like
just a standard you know, grateful and annoyed at the
(06:08):
same time. I was like, but it didn't deter me,
and I started learning those crazy chords that he would
play on those songs on a classical guitar. So what
that did, which I didn't realize when I switched to
a regular acoustic guitar, my dexterity was insane, Like I
could stretch my fingers on the threat of a normal
(06:29):
guitar like crazy, because I was learning these more complicated things.
So I think when I finally got a regular acoustic
that was right right around when I went to college.
I picked up a lot of steam there and The
other part too, is as I was learning and playing
cover songs initially, I in between every one of those,
(06:50):
I would like try to write something. It was just
I couldn't help myself. Like I'd learned DCG and I'd
make something up in DCG. I'd learned, Oh now I
got a minor. Okay, now I'm gonna throw a song
that has DCG with the A minor. And I would
write things because I don't know, I'd always had something
in my head I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I guess that's the beauty of it too, when you
look back at it, all that great stuff is you
can turn it into something. That's the beauty about music.
It's such it's therapy. And I'm gonna get dig more
into that conversation. We come back. We gotta play some
music against check you out at Ronnie Chris dot com
ro O n n Y cri ss. We even spelled
it for you here on the backstage pass. We're gonna
play a song came out just a few weeks ago
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August twenty ninth, or I should say a few weeks there.
It kind of feels like that. Guess we're closing the
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Speaker 4 (08:15):
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Speaker 5 (08:33):
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and let you use us rule you want them to rule.
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Let you we use roll like you want to roll.
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Speaker 3 (10:02):
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the same, on on on on.
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got to talk about this one. I loved it because, like,
I'm going, yeah, seventy miles an hour in a truck
and it's kind of cool. Seventy five I tried to
stay under the speed limit, yeah right, but never easy
until you see the popo kind of pull up next
to you or kind of squatted in one of those
positions out there, and you're like, yeah, I gotta slow down.
But see to me, like it's those kind of songs
that you like, take you on a good roll down
a highway. Yeah, man, something there, and that one just
(15:41):
kind of kept like your head bobbing, like the shoulders moving.
How did you guys come in contact with this and
the arrangement with the McCrary sisters.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well man, that was that song. I wrote that with
my friend Judy Passer, and we wrote that just coming
out of the sort of the Covid Hayze It in
like twenty one or twenty two, and I just I
went into that right, I just like, I want to
write something that's feel good, that's optimistic, something that just
(16:12):
And what was on my mind was like sometimes you
just gotta like roll through the punches kind of thing,
you know, like let it all roll off your back.
Those were all like the phrases I kept thinking in
my head, and I had this I just had this
sort of gospely muscle shoalsy groove going on, and we
started working out some lyrics for it, and that chorus
(16:34):
just came to me and it was like, I, I,
you know, I'd never written a song where I like
literally purposely hit like a super low note to kick
off the chorus. You know, it's like, oh, like you
want them to roll like that big?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Like I just it just was in me. I don't
know what it was.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I think it was all of that stuff pent up
and it came out, and I remember Judy looked at
me like WHOA, what's where's that coming from? I'm like,
I don't know, but let's go. And we finished that
song and it was just I was like, oh my gosh,
like this is a special song and this is such
a fun song. And I knew immediately it was going
to be a staple of my set. I'd be playing
(17:13):
it all the time because anytime I played it for anybody,
people are like, WHOA, where did that come from? And
so when we were making this record, there was no
doubt we were going to put it on the record.
And I'll give you a little uh nobody know, well,
only people who are in my circle know this, but
we haven't put this out yet, so you get an
exclusive here on the record. There's actually two versions of
(17:36):
that song. There's the version that the original version was
reported way back when before I even started making the record.
Because my producer Sean loved the song so much, he
went and started making a version of the song without it.
He didn't even tell me, he just started making a version.
He's like, dude, I want you to come in and
sing on this. I did this because I love the
song so much, And he did this kind of more
(17:58):
country version of the song, and I loved it and
I sang on it, and then I'm like, when we
were marking the record, I'm like, Sean, now that we
will playing with the band, we do a very muscle
shoalzy soulful version, Let's do the soulful version and we'll
have them both on the record. So we did. And
then at that same time, Sean was talking to mccrey's
sisters Regina. He had met her recently, and we just
(18:22):
took a shot in the dark and we contacted him
and said, hey, would you guys be willing to sing
on the song? And oh my god, Like I couldn't
believe it. They were totally into it and they came
in and it was one of the definitely coolest moments
in my musical career to be in a studio with
those ladies laying down the gospel soul on that song,
Like it was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
That's so cool. And you know, I got a chance
to check out that first record we were talking about
a little bit Highways, which came out in twenty twenty two. Yeah,
don't know it out there A lot of cool things
off of their leaving Things was a really cool song
that kind of got right to the point too, and
I loved The Times I Need You.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Love that song.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
They may give me some highlights on your first record too.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, the first record. You know. I love all those
songs too. Tanks the Gas is a special one that
one felt. That was the first single that really felt
like it was a great introduction to me as a
solo artist. If it rains like this tomorrow is one
of my favorite tracks off of that. It's one of
my favorite one of the first songs I wrote in
Nashville when I moved here, The Times I Need You like.
(19:27):
I'm so glad you pointed that out because that's because
we didn't release it as a single, which upsets me now.
But that song gets overlooked sometimes, and it's one of
the most heartfelt songs that I've ever written. Ten and
two I wrote with Katie Cole, who Katie Cole. If
you don't know who she is, I'm pretty sure you do,
(19:48):
but she tours with the Smashing Pumpkins and she's an
amazing solo artist herself, and I wrote that with her
and Sean and that song is just rocking, and there's
just that song was all about youthful inner and like
learning life perspectives. Hurricane Heart is about different things, and
so if there's a progression there, but I appreciate you
(20:09):
bringing that up because I love that album.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, And of course you guys are releasing them a
little bit different now too. When it comes to this
next one you guys are working on, I guess, I
guess one question is it ready to go? And then
you guys looking for a drop date for this new record.
I know you're kind of releasing them a single at
a time. We mentioned about rolled. Of course there's another
song we're going to play called gennal Rain and Hurricane.
It's another fantastic song you're letting us play here before
it comes out across some DSPs. So kind of walk
(20:32):
people through the progress of this new record and how
you guys are releasing it because it's different, but I
like it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So the first record, we released five singles and then
we dropped the rest of the record on streaming, and unfortunately,
the sad part about that is the other six or
so songs just got ignored because of the way that works.
And so I knew this this time around, I was
going to do it different. So we actually officially released
the physical version of the album, Hurricane Heart, the new record.
(21:00):
We released that on August twenty ninth, the same day
we drop Role. So right now, if you come to
my shows, you can buy the limited edition vinyl, you
can buy the deluxe CD.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
If you go to my.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Website, you can buy it, and you can get it
in your hands right now. But we are not dropping
the whole record on DSPs all at once. We're dropping
every single song from the record one at a time
every seven to eight weeks, so the album will fully
be available probably next summer. And at that time I
(21:31):
told you about this earlier when we dropped that last song,
We're gonna drop it with fourteen outtakes, demos, cool others
tunes that almost made the record, So you have a
basically on DSPs. When the album is available, you'll have
the full record, plus a whole other album of unique
stuff to keep you interest and give you a better
(21:52):
picture of what it was like to think through the
process of making the record and how we got to
the final songs.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Well, that's good stuff up and we get a chance
to play one right now off there that you can
only hear right here on the backstage Pass because it
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(22:20):
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is the award nominated Backstage past General Rain and Hurricane
from Ronnie Chris Cork. This one up coming right back,
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Speaker 3 (23:00):
Icking glass in the wet sand. She's breaking dishes all
over the kitchen. She opens the front door to storm
on the coas. Now the curtains are blowing and the
carpet is soaked.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
She ranges on like a tropical storm.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I try to keep calm, pick up the pieces when
she's done.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
We've seen better days.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
But all of its strong, like the waves through Generain,
General rein in her pane. Now she's caught in the sheets.
(23:53):
She can't break free. Face and the pillow ten and
sleep long, golden hair spilled over the bed tangle like
beach grass beat down and sand.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Dark clouds are faded.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
There's nothing but silence and along tide branches wrestling from
all the drifting.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
There minds a nocean a way, but all of strong,
like the way.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Through General Ring, general rain in hurricane.
Speaker 15 (24:39):
And the times.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
I think I might be her loight houses.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
With a night with the fag cruising.
Speaker 15 (24:52):
I have mine down, stare on the breeze, a teaste
of the sea, the salt of the ocean stirring around me,
and the sun's coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And she moves from the bed and see it's by
the window with her hair and the window.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Children are play now on the beach. Now I want
to watch the wondering wood.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
She's thinking. The horizon is.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Grave, but all others strong, like.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
A wave through chen rain, generalin in hurricane, through chirein
generalin in hurricane.
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Speaker 13 (29:22):
Welcome to another edition of Backstage Pass powered by the
Sports Guys Podcast with your host Brandon Morell.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And Ronnie Chris back here on the Backstage Pass. Of
course you guys can acquire but everything the Sports Guys
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And Ronnie knows you being a musician radio host, you
stream that income anyway you get a chance out there.
All right, tell us about this one General Rain and Hurricane.
First of all, I love the title. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 13 (29:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I wrote that with Davis Corley and Mark Addison Chandler song.
Actually we wrote this, I mean at least a decade ago.
Crazy enough as it is. We got into a rite
and you know, Davis was working with this cool sort
of imagery that he always does, and we just me
and him. We started riffing and Mark was throwing things
(30:16):
in there, and it was interesting because it was the
way it felt was. It was a kind of a
beach song and like, but it wasn't you know, most
beach songs are upbeat and kind of poppy and like lighthearted,
and we were really dealing with some heavy material there,
and we wanted it to be beautiful and atmospheric and
(30:37):
and give you all the images of the beach and
the shore. But talk about the not beer drinking and
hanging out.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
It was.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It was something more serious, which is you know, you know,
you can look at it a couple of different ways,
but certainly you know, endearing love, mental illness, all kinds
of stuff. And so it's a heavy song, but it's
a it's a beautiful song. It's one of my favorite
songs ever written. I think it's one of the most
poetic songs that was ever written that I'm a part of.
(31:10):
And so it's you know, I love it. I can't
wait to release it, and I'm excited that you guys
got to play it first.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
About that. See, we get little exclusive stuff here on
the show all the time, to try to put out
the best of the best and get some stuff that
you guys haven't heard out there for all the listening
of fans too. Hey, you know, the fifty ninth. I
think it's fifty ninth annual cmas are coming up here
in November. The reason I know, I guess being a
CMA member, we get those weekly emails for all new
releases and things out there too. Man, I can't recall.
(31:38):
I guess since you've talked about eighties nineties country that
there's been this much crop of talent in quite some time,
both male female category, but specifically looking at this female
category right now, holy crap, Like I mean, one name
after another, not just the Queen Bee Laney Wilson, but
I want to get your opinion on just, man, the
health of the industry right now, between both male and female.
But a lot of good female ares kick some ass
(32:00):
right now.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Absolutely, Man, you know, I think it's a it's a
cool time. You know, I've seen a lot happen in
Nashville since I've since I got here, I've seen a
lot of different sort of musical fads within the sort
of realm of what we call country music. The coolest
thing that's happening now is country is very broad and
so you know, there was a period of time where
(32:23):
every single song sounded a certain way on the radio,
and that's just not the case right now. And and
you're right, the female artists have really there's a lot
of unique ones that are shining in unique ways, a
lot of cool songs, you know. So it's really fun
to see that. Landy obviously is a standout, but there's
(32:46):
a lot of them that are right up there with her,
I think. And and with that time, more and more
people are going to see it. I love that you
can have a Morgan Wallen and a Zach Top but
vying for things and they're completely different. They're completely different,
you know, And and it should be that way. I mean,
(33:08):
it just should be that way. And I think, uh,
I think country radio, Nashville whatever, they finally realized it's
okay to be broad it's okay to have different vibes
and let the market do what it does.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
You know, it's got to dictate what it's going to do,
no doubt. Of course, the fans have a lot to
say in that too. All right, we'll wrap up with
a couple of fun stuff here. They used to call
it rapid fire. We've renamed it a few times too,
But sometimes the answers don't come. Rapid Fire takes a
little deep thought, uh, look, the best time a year
to be a sports fan, no doubt for you college teams,
(33:42):
pro teams, any teams do you get into when it
comes to sports?
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Man, I'm a Cubs fan. I'm a Cubs fan my
whole life, love it Bears fan. I'm a Chicago sports fan.
I had the I was very last as a child
to be able to be in the United Center watching
Michael Jordan playball basketball. So anything Chicago is in my heart.
(34:08):
I don't watch a whole lot of sports these days.
I'm too busy, but that's where my initial place goes.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
All right. So when y'all took Kyle Tucker from us
here in Houston, being an Astros fan our lives even
to try to back into the playoffs, which I keep
telling people to, Yeah, if you can still make it,
make it, but they're not really going to go anywhere too.
But looking back at it, the Cubs have a real
chance of affecting what happens in the National League this
year too.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, man, the Cubs. Love the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Be fun it is, man. Like I said, I'll tell
you this, man, one of my favorite places, I'll say,
the favorite place all time beside Dodger Stadium to watch
a game, was actually going there live and that was
Wrigley Field. I love it out there.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's so love it, dude. I've been in the dugout, man,
I need to take it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So, yeah, I guess I wasn't the dugout with you too.
I wish I was a dugout when a game was
going on to and get some player autographs. That would
have been as an honorary bat boy. So I got
to sit with the players when I was like ten,
it was that's cool. Yeah, They're always in my heart.
Your heart too, no doubt too.
Speaker 13 (35:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
If you were not the working musician that you are,
and thank god you are because you're very good at it,
what other career path would you have taken?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Graphic design? I'm actually a pretty pretty good fine arts painter,
So painting I don't do a lot of that right
now because I also have a daughter, so who's under
the age of four, so music and that all takes
up a lot of time. But yeah, if people want
(35:41):
to google Ronnie and dig deep, you can find my
art on online.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I like that, artists, I like that just as a musician,
but as a painter too. I was gonna say Hitting Talent,
there's one right there too. At the same time, Nashville
No stranger too, spots to eat every time we go
for CRS and see we can do radio show live
from there. It's always something. It's like a test market
now for food chains to open up now, to see
if people like it, to see if it hangs around.
(36:08):
And of course if something closes up, something else moves.
In no doubt for you when you go out, where
do you like to go eat at?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh man, I'm not gonna lie, it's not fair to
Nashville because it's not a Nashville place. But we go
to Chewy's all the time because it's my daughter's favorite place.
But in Nashville, I'll give a shout out to Kaledisberger's.
Kalatis is a burger joint that's newer in Nashville, and
(36:36):
the gentleman who owns that, he hires folks that are
formerly homeless that are getting back on their feet, does
a really great job, and he tries to have at
least one seven dollars burger on the menu so things
aren't outrageously expensive. So I think those folks are pretty cool.
And the burgers are awesome.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
So gotta try those next time I go there. Put
that on the to do list for restaurants. Look in April.
Back to some music real quick, Julia was released. Tell
us all about this song. I actually really really enjoyed
listening to this one.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Oh man, Julie is a special song. I originally wrote
that with my buddy Chris Floyd, who was in my
first band when I moved to Nashville. We were called
the Mercy Mechanics. Me and him wrote that. We used
to play it with that band, but we never recorded it,
and it sat on the shelf for probably fifteen years.
And when I was looking at songs for this new record,
I just knew it needed to have a new life,
(37:26):
and I brought it to Sean and we gave it
a brand new life with the drum groove and the
throwback almost eighties esque sort of vibe that we put
in it, and then the wonderful surprise of the saxophone
solo that it just sets the tone, and it really
sets the tone for the new record. That it's a
(37:46):
different record than Highways. It's still me and it's still
my writing and my voice, but it's definitely taking things off,
kicking things off with a new vibe to really you know,
you know, changed, you know, reset the table a little bit.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I like that too, and it was a different feel
which is really cool and definitely something that I could
have that cool vibe to and that good feel for
a song out there too and made again resonating with songs.
That's what it's all about for our music fans, both
for radio and for the artist guest here on the
program again. Role is the current single feature and the
McCrary sisters across all the digital streaming platforms Ronnie Cris
(38:24):
dot com, r O n n Y c R I
s S dot com. We even again spell it for
you here on the show, so we get things right
out there. It's what we're all about here on the
back beast man, I appreciate you being with us. I
know it took some time to put everything together. We
finally got it locked down and best of luck with
the gig and the shows in Florida this weekend and
hey continue to going forward.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We appreciate you, man, oh, I appreciate you. I just
honored to be on your show. I appreciate you having
me and thanks for all the kind words on the record,
and I hope everybody listens and gets into it because
I think they're gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Can't wait for it to get out there and release
across all the DSPs. We appreciate all the work the
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Speaker 17 (39:27):
Hey all, this is Nashville Recording artists Mary Heather Hickman,
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